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429 - Solid Edge - Tips and Tricks Craig Ruchti, Solid Edge Field Support, Siemens PLM Software


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Agenda: 429 - Solid Edge - Tips and Tricks

Who am I?

What you will learn

Solid Edge capabilities

Demonstrations

Benefits of this topic

How to learn more



About: Craig Ruchti

Craig Ruchti

Solid Edge Field Support


Craig Ruchti is a member of the Solid Edge Field Support team. This group

creates Solid Edge demos, produces and delivers technical Solid Edge update

training and supports Solid Edge pre-sales activities globally. Craig is a graduate

of the University of South Florida with a Mechanical Engineering degree. Prior to

working with the Field Support team, he worked designing rehabilitation

engineering prototypes for various special projects and testing/altering existing

designs to increase use and marketability.



What you will learn

In this session, we will look at little known Solid Edge shortcuts and highlight

underutilized new and old Solid Edge functionality and commands. We will get

back to the basics of things that make Solid Edge great! We will look into tips and

techniques you need to know to be successful with synchronous modeling. This

includes some best practices for specific design challenges and how to tweak the

user interface to make you more productive. Don’t miss this one!



Solid Edge Tips & Tricks

• Do you know how to add other standard templates to the Create

section of the Solid Edge start page?

Show Me!




• Select Edit Create Options and add other templates

• Clicking Browse will open the templates dialog and you can

simply add from the "More" tab




• Did you know you can get important system information while in

a Solid Edge Part or Assembly file?

Show Me!




• CTRL + ALT + (double click) MIDDLE MOUSE WHEEL

• Can be especially important when debugging an issue with

hardware or software




• Do you know how to

place a subassembly

using a configuration?

Show Me!




• RMB click into the white space of the Part Library to invoke the

shortcut menu

• Select "Use Configurations"

• Don’t forget to toggle it off

to disable this function




• When you drag in a subassembly, a dialog will be presented with

the option to select a configuration

• Also there is the option to activate all parts




• Did you know that when your cursor is over the Command

Ribbon that you can use the middle mouse scroll wheel to toggle

through the tabs?

Show Me!




• An underutilized feature for using the radial menu is a gesture

• Combination of a right mouse button "long click" and moving the mouse in a

particular direction

• Can locate any of the 8 commands on the inside ring

• The select tool in particular is very handy for terminating a command to select

a face or part

• Also remember that radial menu can be customized – per environment!

Show Me!




• The timing can be set in the Solid Edge options > Helpers

• Minimum drag distance for gesture: = how far you must

make the mouse travel to invoke a gesture

• Show radial menu after: = How long you must hold down the

right mouse button before the radial menu shows

• Tweak the numbers slowly to adjust to your style

• It DOES take practice to coordinate moving the mouse and

holding down and letting off of the right mouse button

Show Me!




• Where do I find lists of the default shortcut keys for each Solid

Edge environment?

Show Me!




• Open a Part

• Customize the Command Ribbon

• Select the environment

• Select the keyboard tab

• Change "Choose commands from:"

to "All Keyboard Assignments"




• Note that you can print out the keyboard assignments

for each environment




• Do you know how to make cross-hatching look the same

zoomed in as it looks when zoomed to fit?

• Make the hatch not resize dynamically while zooming in

Show Me!




• If you set Solid Edge Options > View tab >

Display as printed, then it won't change as

you zoom in and out




• Do you Use a 3D motion controller?

• If you use a 3D motion controller like a

3D Connexion device or an Astroid,

you may wish to return the scroll

behavior of the middle mouse

wheel to the ST3 behavior.

• Stop zooming when scrolling

even when the cursor is not

over the value edit field

• Only scroll value changes

when a dimension is in

edit mode

Show Me!




• Setting is in Solid Edge Options

• General Tab




• PMI dimensions can be resized on the fly

• Toggle the increase or decrease font icons

or use shortcuts:

CTRL+Shift+,

for decrease

CTRL+Shift+.

for increase

Show Me!




• Similarly, the Steering Wheel can be resized as well!

• Solid Edge Options > View

Show Me!

Small

Medium

Large




• Holding the Control + selecting a movement option on the

steering wheel will automatically copy the synchronous selection

Show Me!




• Communicate confidence in synchronous technology

• Must fully understand the benefits

• Do not be afraid to use the integrated design, mixing

synchronous and ordered in the same model.

• In many cases, it makes a lot of sense to do this.




• Understand the technology

• Rounding edges is often best left as an ordered operation.

• Eliminates synchronous faces getting consumed

by rounds

Show Me!




• Have you ever been in a Synchronous Part and could not

remove rounds?

• This is a caveat of synchronous technology

• If a round has consumed an adjacent face on one of the two

surfaces being shared by the round, then synchronous

technology cannot create a new face that does not exist in the

current state of the model

• The part cannot repair itself attempting to delete (or detach) the

round

• What do I do now?

Show Me!




• In cases like this you must do some "creative modeling" to add

and/or remove material to get the geometry back to the state you

need to continue.



Questions??



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Contact

Craig Ruchti

Solid Edge Field Support

Applications Engineer

675 Discover Drive NW

Huntsville, AL 35806

Phone: +1 (256) 705-2626

Mobile: +1 (813) 810-0578

E-mail:

[email protected]

mailto:[email protected]

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